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Garrick Sherman goes on Twitter rant over Michigan State, NCAA

Sherman, who transferred to Notre Dame, causes a stir with tweets about his time in East Lansing

Kirkland Crawford
Detroit Free Press

Tuesday night, it was Michigan defensive back Jabrill Peppers making news on his Twitter account.

On Wednesday, it was a former Spartan's turn.

As first mentioned by USA TODAY entities the Big Lead and For the Win, Garrick Sherman, the former Michigan State big man who finished his career at Notre Dame, had a series of bizarre, revealing tweets about his time in East Lansing.

Now playing professionally in the European country of Georgia, things seemed to come off the rails for Sherman when he fired this missive (which contains an expletive): "At the final four izzo told me 'not to (bleeping) embarrass myself in front of a crowd bigger than my home town' after I air balled a shot," followed by a set of crying-laughing emoticons.

But he wasn't close to finished. He then said he was going to brainstorm a few stories.

There was the time he said he urinated in a condom so that Durrell Summers could pass a drug test. Sherman intimated that it was during his Final Four season, which would have been 2009-10, when he was a freshman and Summers was a junior.

(He then claimed that if that story didn't make him "Twitter famous," he gives up.)

Sherman went on to go off on the NCAA, but not before claiming that MSU coach Tom Izzo "might actually hate me more (if that's possible) when he loses scholarships cause I drunkenly spilled half his team smoked weed," followed by some more crying-laughing emoticons.

For the record, we reported that Sherman left MSU for "a fresh start" at Notre Dame.

His rant continued, saying this would "show the inability of the ncaa to do anything at all of substance," and "every team in NCAA smokes. My point is NCAA is a joke. I still cheer for MSU. I have no resentment at all."

Sherman deleted many of the posts on Thursday, though he said he stood by all of his claims and simply was getting tired of receiving so many notifications from Twitter. He said he had had two bottles of wine and a few beers, but "I'm a country boy, we know how to drink."